Two hundred and forty-three papers were presented in 10 commissions. Although all were high quality papers, the following were selected as the best papers in each commission:

Commission 1. Linguistics
"La jerga juvenil o la fiesta del lenguaje: el caso ecuatoriano" (Youth slang or the language party: The Ecuadorean case), Manuel Villavicencio, University of Cuenca, Ecuador.

Commission 2. Linguistics
"Intertextualidad a partir del establecimiento de 'status' en los discursos de juicios orales" (Intertextuality from the establishment of 'status' in the discourse in oral trials), Cristián Juan Noemi Padilla, University of La Serena, Chile.

Commission 3. Linguistics
"Conceptualismo e realismo: dois modelos de construção de ontologias de nível superior em análise", Patrícia Cunha França, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal.

Commission 4. Computational Linguistics
"Aplicaciones lingüísticas del análisis discursivo automático" (Linguistic applications of discourse parsing), Iria Da Cunha, Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno, Gerardo Sierra, Spain, French and Mexico.

Commission 5. Art, Ethnology and Folklore
"Particularidades metodológicas en los estudios de bantuismos en el español de Cuba" (Methodological specificities in the study of batuisms in Cuban Spanish) Gema Valdés Acosta, Central University of Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba.

Commission 6. Mass Media
"La argumentación publicitaria en una guía turística de Santiago de Cuba" (Line of argument in advertising in a tourist guide of Santiago de Cuba), Iliana O. Rosabal Pérez, University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.

Commission 7. Education and Communication
"En el mundo del silencio potenciar la comunicación: realidad y necesidad" (Fostering communication in the world of silence: reality and necessity), Rosa María Hernández Portales, University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.

Commission 8. Foreign Languages
"Potenciación de la comunicación en Idioma Inglés mediante el uso de la pintura paisajística: una experiencia con estudiantes de la carrera de Ingeniería Forestal en la Universidad de Pinar del Río" (Fostering communication in English through the use of landscape painting: An experience with students in the Forest Engineering program at the University of Pinar del Río), Iselys González López, Juan Silvio Cabrera Albert, Liván Díaz Pando, University of Pinar del Río, Cuba.

Commission 9. Foreign Languages
"From Linguistic Imperialism to Linguistic Conscientización: Enhancing the preparation of bilingual teachers as social communicators and language mediators", Margarita Machado Casas, Patricia Sánchez, Lucila Ek, Juandalynn Taylor, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, United States.

"Commission 10. Medicine
Análisis narrativo en la investigación en Salud Mental: El caso de la convivencia de niños y enfermos de Alzheimer" (Narrative analysis in mental health research: Cohabitation of children with Alzheimer´s patients), Xosé Ramón García Soto, Miguel Goñi Imízcoz, University of Burgos and Burgos Welfare Complex, Spain.